{"id":6907,"date":"2015-10-21T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/3.0\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2015-10-21T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T16:30:09","slug":"placebos-can-make-you-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/placebos-can-make-you-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Placebos Can Make You Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/3.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/placebo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6902 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/3.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/placebo-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"placebo\" width=\"218\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/14\/a-placebo-can-make-you-run-faster\/\">great article<\/a> in The New York Times describing \u00a0how placebos can enable athletes to perform better. The argument is that believing that a pill or shot will boost performance (when it really just saline) causes us to tap into a reserve of energy (mental and physical) that propels us faster and longer. Specifically, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25412293\">the research<\/a>\u00a0found that runners experienced\u00a0reductions in physical effort, increased potential motivation, and improved recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Could be a great tool for coaches and parents!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a great article in The New York Times describing \u00a0how placebos can enable athletes to perform better. The argument is that believing that a pill or shot will boost performance (when it really just saline) causes us to tap into a reserve of energy (mental and physical) that propels us faster and longer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1517],"tags":[576,1097,230,186,61],"class_list":["post-6907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-effort","tag-enhancing-drugs","tag-motivation","tag-performance","tag-sports-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}